At NielsenIQ, we’re passionate about building software that solves problems across B2B and B2C business. We count on our site reliability engineers (SREs) to empower users with a rich feature set, high availability, and stellar performance level to pursue their missions. We’re seeking an experienced SRE to deliver insights from massive-scale data in real time. Specifically, we’re searching for someone who has fresh ideas and a unique viewpoint, and who enjoys collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences for every interaction.

Objectives of this role

• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating for continual improvement
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large-scale distributed software applications

Responsibilities

• Gather and analyze metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service-level objectives

Qualifications

Required skills and qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science with 8+ years of experience in an enterprise environment.
• Master’s degree desirable in Computer Science and related fields.
• Relevant AWS/Azure certification is required.
• Ability to program (structured and OOP) using one or more high-level languages, such as Python, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and JavaScript
• Proactive approach to identifying problems, performance bottlenecks, and areas for improvement

Desired Experience

• Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) experience for Azure/AWS Cloud with a large account is a must.
• Experience working in an agile development environment and project management
• Familiarity with cloud frameworks, containers and Kubernetes services
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure and the compute stack based on Linux, and/or Windows, the management tools, and the network integration.
• Hands-on experience with 2 or more automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation, ARM Templates
• Experience with distributed storage technologies such as NFS, HDFS, Ceph, and Amazon S3, as well as dynamic resource management frameworks (Apache Mesos, Kubernetes, Yarn)
• Hands on experience with scripting with Unix/Powershell.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Experience in all aspects of cloud computing (e.g. infrastructure, storage, platforms, data etc.)
• Experience of architecture, design, and implementation of complex, highly available and highly scalable Cloud solutions
• Strong knowledge in Cloud-best practices and hands-on experience in design, implementation, and/or support of cloud migrations and operations